You can try to create modular admin panel as a package. It could contain CRUD forms for models defined in config. Just thinking out loud...

Could a package contain all the required views as well? Have read through the docs and can't seem to get my head around how you would instantiate the package once you hit the /admin route .. thank you!

Of course: http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/packages#package-views

notflip said:

Could a package contain all the required views as well? Have read through the docs and can't seem to get my head around how you would instantiate the package once you hit the /admin route .. thank you!

As far as I remember, package can define view, routes, configs and even migrations.